@qmriis You can shoot the moon and brighter planets by holding a camera [complete with lens] to the telescope eyepiece and just snap away! A digiscope adapter will clamp camera to eyepiece and remove camera shake. For galaxy pics a cam without lens replaces the eyepiece and turns 'scope into a very 'long' lens. But galaxies are very faint and need long 'guided' exposures - there's the rub;-).
@nytecam Ah, ok. I want to try some imaging tonight maybe... I have a nice Kodak 12MP sensor digicam somewhere, and a crappy webcam as well. I've read some things that say to use ccd camera with no eyepiece... in that case, what is the magnification?
@qmriis That's a ? I can understand [without a crystalball!] I like to test new scopes [especially small one that anyone can own] and see what they can do - and remarkably well they do! Now back to the big 12" scope with colour cam attached to discover, for example, my 1st supernova "SN2011az" as latest vid - enjoy.
@nytecam Asking where your image collection of images taken with the larger scope is at... more scope, more light, better pictures, right? Why do you use the smaller one instead?
btw I got my own recently traded for scope aligned last night FINALLY and observed Saturn, so small and pretty! So I will be getting back into astronomy now, if I can afford it...
Wow, your photos are very sharp! Good job.
tips101yi 6 months ago
@qmriis You can shoot the moon and brighter planets by holding a camera [complete with lens] to the telescope eyepiece and just snap away! A digiscope adapter will clamp camera to eyepiece and remove camera shake. For galaxy pics a cam without lens replaces the eyepiece and turns 'scope into a very 'long' lens. But galaxies are very faint and need long 'guided' exposures - there's the rub;-).
nytecam 9 months ago
@nytecam Ah, ok. I want to try some imaging tonight maybe... I have a nice Kodak 12MP sensor digicam somewhere, and a crappy webcam as well. I've read some things that say to use ccd camera with no eyepiece... in that case, what is the magnification?
qmriis 9 months ago
@qmriis That's a ? I can understand [without a crystalball!] I like to test new scopes [especially small one that anyone can own] and see what they can do - and remarkably well they do! Now back to the big 12" scope with colour cam attached to discover, for example, my 1st supernova "SN2011az" as latest vid - enjoy.
nytecam 9 months ago
@nytecam Asking where your image collection of images taken with the larger scope is at... more scope, more light, better pictures, right? Why do you use the smaller one instead?
btw I got my own recently traded for scope aligned last night FINALLY and observed Saturn, so small and pretty! So I will be getting back into astronomy now, if I can afford it...
qmriis 9 months ago
@qmriis No - so what's the ?
nytecam 9 months ago
@nytecam ?!@?!@?!? I'M AWARE OF THAT. Maybe you don't understand my question.
qmriis 9 months ago
@qmriis No - thru the piggybacked ETX-70 as stated.
nytecam 9 months ago
Where are the images taken with the big scope?
qmriis 9 months ago
@anthonyhibbitt25 Don't make me laff! I'm in Bortle 0/1 - the worst possible so no good for 'looking' BUT my cam cuts through the muck;-)
nytecam 11 months ago